1. Survey : Is science in conflict with religion?
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

Dr David Wilson, an infectious disease scientist, is conducting an international internet-based survey in collaboration with the religious and psychology academics at the University of Newcastle, Aust

2. Fossil reveals oldest live birth
(Science/General)

...he female fish. The scientists have named it Materpiscis attenboroughi, in honour of the naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who first drew attention to the Gogo fish fossil sites in the 1970s. Sir D...

3. Make Way for Superfrog
(Science/General)

...culated that the protrusions were an artifact of the preservation process. Harvard University biologists David Blackburn decided to solve the mystery once and for all after having the frequent misfort...

4. The Mind-Altering Role of Incense in Religion
(Religion/General)

.... In other words, religion is often essential for our psychological well-being. Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson of Binghamton University and others have also pointed out that religion can ...

5. Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour
(Religion/General)

...uot;totally nonviable", the report says, with just 180,000 worshippers in 6,000 churches by 2040. David Voas, a professor of population studies at the Institute for Social Change at the Univers...

6. Citing Faith, Bush Defends War Actions
(Religion/General)

...ive before next month's Congressional testimony by the top American military commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, and the senior diplomat there, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker. General Petraeu...

7. Darwin's Nemesis by William Dembski
(Book reviews/Reviews)

...ch 5) and Walter L Bradley (ch 18). Part III, entitled Two Friendly Critics, contains contributions from David Belinski and Michael Ruse. The latter two contributions do not really match the tone of t...

8. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

... hated woman in America." O'Hair was murdered and dismembered, allegedly by her office manager, David Roland Waters, in 1995, but this wasn't discovered until six years later, prompting s...

9. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda
(Religion/General)

...rticle that Shermer had written debunking the Holocaust deniers) whose identity I shall conceal as "David J". Now I truly understand who you atheists and darwinists really are! You people b...

10. Psychic crackdown on the cards
(Paranormal/General)

...y felt vulnerable, or had mental health issues, or were of a nervous disposition.' With her husband, David, a spiritualist minister, she has set up the Spiritualist Workers' Association, to he...

11. Hatred and Ignorance on the Web
(Religion/General)

...ughts behind it. Hence, I am ashamed of such people as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Lucretius, David Mills, Ian McEwan, et al. I agree with what they want, but not with their reasoning. Henc...

12. Getting the public to pay attention to good science
(Science/General)

...essage seemed to be that a story shouldn't be trusted simply because it had numbers attached to it. David Goldston, the former staff director for Congress' House Committee on Science, focused...

13. Worshiping at the Temple of Diana
(Religion/General)

...ackets and hats completely covered with badges. They resembled football fanatics, except that instead of David Beckham’s face staring out from the badges there was Diana’s. In chatting wit...

14. Confessions of a Former Iridologist
(Medicine/General)

...inces me that conventional, evidence-based medicine is a big step up compared to the alternative. Joshua David Mather Sr. Reposted from : http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/confessions....

15. Study holds new promise for spinal injuries
(Good news/All)

...ys," said Dr. Michael Sofroniew, the study's lead author and a professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "When there's a traffic accident on the freew...

16. Former bishop against blasphemy laws
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ed by Evan Harris, a Liberal Democrat front-bencher, Frank Dobson, a former Labour cabinet minister, and David Wilshire, a Conservative backbencher. As well as Lord Carey, they are supported by figure...

17. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... so-called No Free Lunch, or N.F.L., theorems, which were derived in the late nineties by the physicists David H. Wolpert and William G. Macready. These theorems relate to the efficiency of different ...